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ee 000000 Six shoppers E, F, G, H, I and J queue at a supermarket check-out. Eis four places in front of I. His three behind E. F is nearer the front of the queue than J. There are two shoppers in front of G and none behind I. List the shoppers in the queue from first to last. (C__) Ist (___) 2nd (___) 3rd (_) 4th C___) Sth C_) 6th Five towns are situated close together. Town A is North East of town B and South East of town C. Cis North of B and West of town D which is North East of A. Town E is South of D and East of B. Which direction is it from? - ©6000 Tewn C to town E. c ) Town D to town B. ¢ ) Town A to town E. c y Town E to town C. ) Page 12 Five girls A, B, C, D and E played with counters. At the beginning A, B and C had 12 counters each and D and E had 15 each. A got 1 from C and 2 from E. B gave 4 to C and the same to A. D got 1 from everyone else and E got 4 from D and gave 2 to B. @ Who ended with the same number she started with? ¢ ) @ Who had the least at the end? ¢ ) © Which two girls had the same number at the end? ¢ oy @®]O Which two girls had half the total number of counters between them at the end? Coe ) There are six shops in a block — a shoe shop, a bakery, a grocer, a chemist, a hardware shop and a pet shop. The bakery is three shops from the pet shop and one from the shoe shop. The hardware shop is at one end of the block and four shops from the chemist. The shoe shop is closer to the chemist than to the hardware shop. List the shops starting with the hardware shop. i Page 13 — 6® 880080 0 88 ° Aand E. They stop at three towns on Abus and a train make the same journey between two towns A and E. They spot uke Uo the way. The train leaves 1 hour and 20 minutes after the bus bus. 7 It takes the bus the same length of time to travel from B to C as the train to wv from i we. ‘The train arrives at C 35 minutes after it leaves A and an hour after the bus. The bus takes minutes more than the train to go from A to D. Answer questions 22-27 by completing the table and then answer questions 28-33 that follow the table. At what time is the bus at C? (__________) At what time is the train at D? ¢ ) J ch longer is the journey by bus from A to E? C snins_) ‘When the train leaves A which town is the bus travelling to? Et Passengers travelled from A to E by bus. The bus broke down at C and they travelled the rest of the way by train. How long did their total journey, including the wait, take? ¢ ) At what time would the train need to leave A each day in order to arrive at E at the same time as the bus? ¢ ) Page 14 } eeeee Alan, Betty, Chris, Dave and Edward are the five children in a family. The youngest is older than 3 and the oldest is younger than 16. There are no twins in the family. ‘Two children are older than 11. All the ages, except Dave's, are an even number of years. Alan is older than Chris and their ages together make Betty’s age. Edward is the youngest and Betty is the oldest. Give each child’s age below. Alan is ¢ ) Betty is ¢ ) Chris is t ) Dave is ¢ ) Edward is ) 6666086 At the start of a race 6 greyhounds A, B,C, D, E and F are placed in a row of starting boxes. The boxes are numbered 1 to 6. fet ees] lie a Dog A is in the odd-numbered box next to dogs B and D. Dog F is in an even-numbered box next to dog C. Dog D is not in an odd-numbered box but is next to dog E. Deg Cis in a box at one end of the row. What is the number of the box that contains: Dog A? (___) Dog B? (___) Dog C? (___) Dog D? (___) Dog E? (___) Dog F? (___) \ Page 15 SS A street has 8 houses numbered I to 8, The odd-numbered houses are opposite the even-numbered ones. Number 1 is opposite number 2 and so on. Eight families A, B, C, D, E, F,G and H live in the houses. F lives at one end of the odd row. E’s number is twice that of H’s. D lives in an even-numbered house and G lives at one end of that row. B and H live opposite one another. A lives next door to F. | ‘The number of D’s house is one more than the sum of H and B’s houses. ‘The number of F’s house is 3 more than that of B’s house. Give the number of each family’s house. @ FamilyA(_) © FamiyB(_) @ ranily cc ) @ FamiyDc___) @ Family E( ) @® FamilyF(_____) @ ranily( ) @ amily H( ) F,G,H, I and J are 5 points on a map. I is 6km due south of F and Skm due east of G. His due east of F. J is 7km due east of I and directly south of H. ©® which point is south-east of F? | @ Which point is north-east of I? ¢ ) © __ which points 12km due west of J? ¢ _ ) © __ifaman travels 7h east of F and then 6km south, at which point would he be? C ) @ _ ifaman travels from G to H by going through I and F, how far is the journey? C kan__) © _ifa man travels directly from J to G and then through Ito F, how far is the journey? ¢ km__) ———————————————————— Page 16 1 @6e ee 8 ‘Traffic signals have two sets of lights, one for drivers and one for pedestrians. Set A: Red, green and amber for drivers. Set B: Green man and red man lights for pedestrians. Pedestrians cross when the green man shows. ‘The following settings occur one after the other and then the pattern is repeated. rep | amber | creen | SCREEN | pep Man Drivers stop. ‘ON OFF OFF ON. OFF Drivers prepare to stop.| ON ON OFF OFF ‘ON Drivers go. OFF OFF ON OFF on | Drivers stop. OFF ON OFF OFF on | {A driver approaches red and amber lights. ‘When these lights change which man will light up for pedestrians? = (_____— +) When the red man is not on, which light for drivers must be on? ‘When the same colour is showing for both drivers and pedestrians, what other colour is showing? ‘When three of the five lights are on is it safe for pedestrians to cross? If the green man is showing, which colour for drivers would be on? Page 17 —_— OCC LL In each of the following questions one word can be put in front of each of the four given words to form a new word. Write the correct word in the brackets. Look at this example: board berry out bird (BLACK) town pour cast stairs ( ) sick work land less ( ) burn day rise set ( ) coat over table stile ( ) ward roar set stairs __.) word able age port ( ) 880660 Ata party six chairs are placed in 2 rows opposite one another. In one row the chairs are numbered 1, 3 and 5. In the opposite row they are numbered 2, 4 and 6. Chair 1 is opposite chair 2. Chair 3 is opposite 4 and chair 5 is opposite 6. Six children A, B, C, D, E and F sit on the chairs. 7 Fis on an even-numbered chair opposite to E but he does not sit on chair number 6. Ais not beside B, and D is not beside E. A and D sit on centre chairs. Music is played and the children change seats. C changes with F. E changes with D. Band A change. Who sits on chair number 4? a) On which chair does F sit? iy On which chair does D sit? Cy Who sits opposite C? Cy Who sits on chair number 3? ey 880008 Page 18 068866 Dot, Amy and Helen cach have a blouse, skirt and a scarf. Each garment is black, yellow or white. No two garments of the same type have the same colour, Each girl wears garments of 3 different colours. Dot’s scarf is the same colour as Helen’s skirt, Amy’s scarf and Dot's skirt are both the same colour as Helen’s blouse. Amy’s skirt is yellow and her blouse is not black. What colour is Amy’s blouse? C ) What colour is Dot's skirt? C ) What colour is Helen's scarf? (____) Which girl has the black blouse? WK) Which girl has the white scarf? ———— e8eeee Together 5 children have £8.00. The girls together have exactly the same amount as the boys together. ‘Sue has 50p more than Olive. Len has 60p more than Fred. Dave has the same as Len and Fred together. How much do they each have? ‘Sue has @_____) Olivehas (&__) Davehas (E. ) Lenhas (f. ) Fred has ¢€____ Page 19 in A,B, C.D, E and F are six boats sailing due East Eis due East of A. B is due East of E and due West of F. C is due North of B. D is due South of E. © __ Which boat is leading the race? a © _ Which boat is last in the race? (___ @ __ How many boats are further to the East than E? (__) © _ Which boat is sailing furthest North? (__ © __ Which boat is sailing furthest South? ee A digital watch gained time at a steady rate.A man set it to the correct time when he got up in the morning. When the lunchtime news started at 13.00 the watch showed 13.10, Four hours later it showed 17.18. @® _—_Whattime did the watch show when the correct time was 11.00? ee @ __ When it was 6 o’clock in the evening what time did the watch show? Ct? @ __ When the watch showed 16.16 what was the proper time? (_____) © Atwhat time did the man get up in the morning? ¢ ) © __ How many minutes does the watch gain each hour? C mins_) Three men and three women are sat equally spaced around a circular table. No two men were sitting together. Lisa was opposite Tom. Joan sat opposite Peter with Tom on her right. Also at the table were Sandra and Harry. After a while some of them changed seats. Joan and Harry changed Seats with each other and so did Tom and Sandra. ©& __ which woman was then beside Peter? ( ) © Who was then on Hay’ left? . C ) @ Who was then opposite Sandra? ( ) © Name the two men who were then sitting together C &. ) | ©] Who was then opposite Joan? ¢ ) } Page 20,

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